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Barnstaple gas engineer prosecuted following unsafe asbestos removal at a tenants’ home Date: 10 March 2016 A gas engineer removed potentially dangerous asbestos material during a gas boiler replacement putting himself and others at risk from exposure to asbestos fibres. Brian Hockin, aged 58, was removing an old warm air heating system at a residential […]

LED Lights We may be property managers and not electricians but we are also members of the ECA as we get important updates and information through from this trusted association. I have just read with interest one of their case studies about LED lighting and the impact is so good that I wanted to share

First agent to use digital advert on Medway City Estate in Kent We are really excited to be the first property agent to use the digital advertising board on Medway City Estate. We are even using it to advertise property to let on the estate. Michael Parkes Surveyors Ltd think this is really exciting and

We are very pleased to have just completed a rent review in Medway saving our client (the tenant) £23,324 per year!! If you need rent review advice, please read through the guidance on our website at https://michaelparkes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Rent-Review.pdf or contact Emma Catterall to discuss further.

Self Employment Just last month, in February 2016 Julie Deane OBE from The Cambridge Satchel Company gave an independent report to the Prime Minister about her findings regarding self employment. I read this with interest as the report shows that the number of self-employed in the UK currently stands at 4.6m, an all-time high. This

Did you know that from 1st April 2017 the Valuation Office Agency, sometimes called the VOA is updating the rateable value of all business properties. This affects you if you rent a business property or you own a business property and pay rates. The amount of business rates you pay is based on the rateable

Deal Done! We agreed the sale of a property for sale in Medway Kent. It was business unit at Riverside III with a lease of 999 years from 1987. We achieved £97,000 for our client and we are pleased to confirm this has just completed.

Commercial Estate Agent V Residential Estate Agent   So you have a commercial property that you would like to sell or rent out and you don’t know who to turn to. Maybe you grab the local newspaper or look on Rightmove to see who is advertising properties local to you and you start calling round.

The long awaited decision about whether Marks and Spencer were due back a pro-rata amount of rent after they issued a break in their lease has finally been made. A very short recap: – There was a dispute about the law of implied contract terms. M&S believed they were entitled to the repayment of rent

We have just read in the latest IRPM technical update that a management company advised residents that the odd job person was unable to change light bulbs as he would only be protected from negligence if a competent electrician carried out the job. The residents referred the matter to the HSE’s mythbusters panel which took a